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The Unmitigated Disaster Known As Project ORCA (GOTV failure)
Ace of Spades HQ ^ | 11/08/12 | John E.

Posted on 11/08/2012 1:47:30 PM PST by jocon307

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To: jocon307

I was a participant, and it did not work well for me.

I had no problem with the poll workers, whom by the end of the evening had almost embraced me as one of their own—that was the nice part.

The difficulty was in the app, which for some reason would not allow me to login from either the smartphone or the tablet that I brought. I had to mark off the names by hand on the list, then drive home every two hours or so (fortunately my house was mere blocks from the polling place) and enter them in my desktop computer, where I had no problem logging in.


21 posted on 11/08/2012 2:49:25 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: jocon307

I read somewhere here about the Dems using organized data mining to line up new voters. They knew there was going to be a drop off in kool-aid drinkers from ‘08 so they got new ones. Where I voted, there were three young Black men who claimed they lived in apartments down the street but showed up at the wrong polling place. They were sent down the street to another polling place, but obviously new voters. Not to sound racist but lets just say they didn’t look like they live in the neighborhood. And there was a nervous young lady who appeared to be voting for the first time—had that perturbed “war on women” way about her like voting was her cause and she wasn’t going to be intimidated by the process.


22 posted on 11/08/2012 3:00:23 PM PST by Fu-fu2
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To: cookcounty

Hah, yep, that sounds about right. I was getting about 6-8 calls a day from them through election day, even though I never answer phone calls from solicitors, blocked numbers, or political campaigns. They could have saved themselves a few bucks in toll calls if they crossed my name of the list after the first hundred calls I didn’t answer.


23 posted on 11/08/2012 3:02:04 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Fu-fu2

We had a young woman walk almost a mile to our polling place pushing a baby in a stroller because the Ds hung a flyer on her doorknob sending her to the wrong polling place (ours).

One of the pollworkers, a Dem, gave her a ride to the correct one.

So I guess they screw up, too. Unfortunately, they win anyway.


24 posted on 11/08/2012 3:04:12 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: jocon307

I participated in this project. My experience, fortunately, wasn’t as poor as Ace’s. While the system and the organization required to ensure that it is well-oiled and extremely functional were not in place, it is in its infancy. Yes, we are way behind the rats in terms of GOTV. This system, as envisioned, will catch us up immediately.


25 posted on 11/08/2012 3:04:44 PM PST by RobertClark (Inside every "older" person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened?)
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To: Hojczyk
My sons, wife and I vote together as a family, and because of some non-overlap in our schedules we are almost never at the polling place until well after 7 PM. This year the four of us and my daughter (not yet of voting age) arrived at 7:45.

Two observations: 1) I have voted in every election including off year primaries since May 1972. The highest Presidential year in this precinct was 2004. In that year, I was last to vote. My stub number was #1414. This year, my youngest son was the last person in the precinct to vote. he was #1538. Most presidential years are in the 1200's. Off years are in the 4-600 range depending on ballot questions and local races of interest. I asked the poll judge -- a woman I went out with in college -- how this number compared with 2008, when I was done about 6 PM and wouldn't know the maximum number. She said 1250. So, at least in my precinct we were up about 7% from the previous record, and about 13% over the 2008 election. How in the HELL did we finish with 3,000,000 fewer votes than 2008? How?

2) Observation two maybe gives the answer, maybe it doesn't. There are FOUR registered Republicans in our house. FOUR. As of 7:40 PM when we walked out the door, we had not received a SINGLE CALL from the Romney campaign reminding us to vote. NOT ONE CALL.

When we left at 6 PM in 2008, we had already received calls at 1 PM and again just after 5 PM from the supposedly bumbling McCain campaign reminding us we hadn't voted yet.

So, in the crucial "battleground state" of Pennsylvania, apparently ORCA flopped.

Big time.

26 posted on 11/08/2012 3:06:13 PM PST by FredZarguna (I'm sorry, General Washington. We owed you and the men at Valley Forge so much more than this.)
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To: cherry

I can’t say for sure, but I have a hard time buying the idea that the Dems’ integrity stops them from cheating Big.


27 posted on 11/08/2012 3:07:29 PM PST by UltraV (I use the term Leftist not liberal, because a true liberal would not support government censorship.)
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To: cherry

Turnout? Romney got less votes that McCain.


28 posted on 11/08/2012 3:09:28 PM PST by Fledermaus (2012: The year the Constitution died.)
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To: jocon307

RINO File.


29 posted on 11/08/2012 3:17:14 PM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: UltraV

” I have a hard time buying the idea that the Dems’ integrity stops them from cheating Big.”

Keep in mind that one of the tenets of liberalism is that there is no objective or absolute morality. The left believes that the only morality is what advances the cause.


30 posted on 11/08/2012 3:29:11 PM PST by all the best (`~!)
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To: jocon307
WOW!

It seems not only was the campaign messaging not energizing the base but as well the GOTV effort was centrally planned and ventrally coordinated by amateurs...

31 posted on 11/08/2012 4:55:21 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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To: jocon307
Naturally, for reasons I can't begin to comprehend, my printer would not print in black and white with an empty magenta cartridge (No HP, I will never buy another one of your products ever again)
32 posted on 11/08/2012 5:14:19 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: Lexinom

Yes, I was struck by the printer woes also. Printers are truly the weak link in the computer chain. I’m convinced that if Columbus had a computer he never would have discovered America - he’d be stuck in port trying to get the printer to work.


33 posted on 11/08/2012 5:57:17 PM PST by jocon307
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To: jocon307
That was quoted from the article on the blog. I've had the same come-to-Jesus moment the author relayed with HP printers. Why does one need magenta toner to print a black-and-white document - esp. when in a pickle like that?

HP deserves to lose business over it.

34 posted on 11/08/2012 6:18:07 PM PST by Lexinom
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